Date:         Fri, 17 May 1996 14:25:07 EDT
Reply-To:     Gerry <STATMAN@PACEVM.DAC.PACE.EDU>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Gerry <STATMAN@PACEVM.DAC.PACE.EDU>
Organization: Dept of Academic Computing, Pace University
Subject:      SAS Access To FOCUS Data

Ken:
 
Before we went "relational", we used FOCUS for data management, and
often had a need to use other languages to process FOCUS data. We had
alot of trouble with FOCUS's host level language (HLL) support (used
with PL/I), and found the best way to share FOCUS data with other
languages/applications was indirectly.
 
For each FOCUS database, we had a set of FOCEXECs that issued TABLE
language commands to dump the database data (we could select specific
fields if we needed to) to a flat file, which was then processed by
some other langauge/application.
 
A couple other places to try for information is FOCUS-L, the FOCUS
counter part to SAS-L, and FUSE, the FOCUS users organization (some-
one may have written a procedure). FUSE chapter contact information
should be available from IBI.
 
Good Luck !
 
 
-Gerry
 
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